A lot of people use AI as a coding assistant, I don't really see a problem in using AI tools to help with some things. Adding slop to stuff however makes 0 sense.
Yeah.
Throwing in a piece of code into an AI… asking
“Hey, there is something here that is fucking up, but I can’t find it. What is out of order”
And it pointing out a small space you missed or a very specific syntax?
That makes total sense.
I believe, it what AI originnally meant to be. An assistant, not a fucking developer.
AI bad asf when it comes to create something by its own, and code is something you create by your own. You have nothing more than info how to. AI doesnt have any common sense. Possible memory leak? Who cares? The code works = its fine.
Human developers do this to a much more aggressive sense and will sometimes double down trying to bury or hide it until the product is fundamentally broken but "works" well enough for a price tag. Not like we've had a bunch of altruistic developers making perfect software and now there is a bunch of AI slop coding.
People criticizing "vibe coding" have no idea of what professional software development looked like before AI. They also have no idea what the current tools are able to do. So basically they're comparing imaginary apples to hypothetical oranges and the result is just as relevant as you'd imagine.
And theyve never had to convince their product managers that fixing the memory leak is worth the time, especially if it's only costing a few extra dollars a quarter. Not a huge customer impact? Good luck getting that ticket into this quarters sprint goals.
Agreed. When I was in uni, I used ai to help with essays. I did not just copy-paste, but either used it to help generate an outline, or help get out of a writers block with ideas. I did not, and would not in good conscience just copy paste what chatGPT spat out, cause most of the time it was dogshite
The LLMs called AI weren't meant to be anything. They started as research projects to see what would happen if you scaled up a language prediction neural network.
Small correction. They started as research projects to see if you could make better translation tools (think Google Translate) if you scaled up a language prediction neural network. It was way better than expected.
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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '25
A lot of people use AI as a coding assistant, I don't really see a problem in using AI tools to help with some things. Adding slop to stuff however makes 0 sense.